Summary: French retired
military pilot in the French Air Force who was among one of six French tourists reported missing and presumed dead aboard on the ill-fated Italian
cruise liner Costa Concordia after the vessel ran aground and capsized off the
west coast of Italy at the Giglio island
in the Mediterranean Sea, in which at least 30 passengers and crew members died
in the shipwreck
and two others were still missing, but more than 4,000 people evacuated during the
disaster.